Carl
>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>This is sanctimonious and insulting. I am glad you
>have such god ideas about how I should live. Now, will
>you set me up with a Mexican fishing boat and give me
>about 15 years lessons in fishing, plus providing
>Mexican national health insurance and pensions and
>state-subsidized educations for my kids? I didn't
>drift into my line of work. I considered voluntray
>poverty and its costs. Btw, my wife the schoolteacher?
>Works longer hours than me for a sixth of the pay. jks
>
>
>--- martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Bill Stebbins
> > Subject: Retirement The Hard Way
> >
> > A business consultant was at a pier in a small
> > coastal Mexican village
> > when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
> > Inside the small
> > boat were several large yellow-fin tuna. The
> > business consultant
> > complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish
> > and asked how long
> > it took to catch them.
> >
> > The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."
> >
> > The consultant then asked why didn't he stay out
> > longer and catch more
> > fish?
> >
> > The Mexican said he had enough to support his
> > family's immediate needs.
> >
> > The consultant then asked the Mexican how he spent
> > the rest of his time.
> >
> > The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a
> > little, play with my
> > children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll
> > into the village each
> > evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my
> > amigos. I have a full
> > and busy life, senor."
> >
> > The consultant scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and
> > could help you. You
> > should spend more time fishing and, with the
> > proceeds, buy a bigger
> > boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you
> > could buy several
> > boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing
> > boats. Instead of
> > selling your catch to a middleman you would sell
> > directly to the
> > processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You
> > would control the
> > product, processing and distribution. You would
> > need to leave this
> > small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico
> > City, then LA and
> > eventually NYC where you will run your expanding
> > enterprise."
> >
> > The Mexican fisherman asked, "But senor, how long
> > will this all take?"
> >
> > The consultant replied, "15-20 years."
> >
> > "But what then, senor?" asked the Mexican.
> >
> > The consultant laughed, and said, "That's the best
> > part! When the time
> > is right, you would announce an IPO and sell your
> > company stock to the
> > public. You'll become very rich, you would make
> > millions!"
> >
> > "Millions, senor?" replied the Mexican. "Then what?"
> >
> > The consultant said, "Then you would retire. Move to
> > a small coastal
> > fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a
> > little, play with
> > your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the
> > village in the
> > evenings where you could sip wine and play your
> > guitar with your
> > amigos."
> >
> > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/bs16